update readme (#75)

* update readme

* create tags on version changes

Author: mvadu

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -59,3 +59,30 @@ jobs:
         }
       env:
         NUGET_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.NUGET_API_KEY }}
+    
+    - name: Extract version and create tag
+      if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
+      shell: pwsh
+      run: |
+        # Extract version from csproj
+        [xml]$csproj = Get-Content src/AdysTech.CredentialManager/AdysTech.CredentialManager.csproj
+        $version = $csproj.Project.PropertyGroup.Version | Select-Object -First 1
+        $tagName = "v$version"
+        
+        Write-Host "Package version: $version"
+        Write-Host "Tag name: $tagName"
+        
+        # Check if tag already exists
+        git fetch --tags
+        $tagExists = git tag -l $tagName
+        
+        if ($tagExists) {
+          Write-Host "Tag $tagName already exists, skipping tag creation"
+        } else {
+          Write-Host "Creating new tag: $tagName"
+          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
+          git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+          git tag -a $tagName -m "Release $version"
+          git push origin $tagName
+          Write-Host "Tag $tagName created and pushed"
+        }

README.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 [![NuGet](https://img.shields.io/nuget/v/AdysTech.CredentialManager)](https://www.nuget.org/packages/AdysTech.CredentialManager)
 [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
+[![Build and Deploy](https://github.com/AdysTech/CredentialManager/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/AdysTech/CredentialManager/actions/workflows/build.yml)
 
 A .NET library for storing and retrieving credentials from the Windows Credential Store.
 Wraps the native `CredWrite`, `CredRead`, `CredEnumerate`, and `CredDelete` APIs via P/Invoke,
@@ -278,3 +279,12 @@ The project requires Windows for testing (credential store access via interactiv
 ## License
 
 [MIT](LICENSE) — Copyright (c) 2016-2026 Adys Tech
+
+## Historical context
+C# wrapper around CredWrite / CredRead functions to store and retrieve from Windows Credential Store.
+Windows OS comes equipped with a very secure robust [Credential Manager](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj554668.aspx) from Windows XP onwards, and [good set of APIs](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa374731(v=vs.85).aspx#credentials_management_functions) to interact with it. However .NET Framework did not provide any standard way to interact with this vault.
+
+Microsoft Peer Channel blog (WCF team) has written [a blog post](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/peerchan/application-password-security) in 2005 which provided basic structure of using the Win32 APIs for credential management in .NET.
+I used their code, and improved up on it to add `PromptForCredentials` function to display a dialog to get the credentials from user.
+
+I left the project stale for few years, and an amazing contributor @shakeyourbunny helped me to modernize the framework and fix few security audit findings. Huge thanks!